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Re: xboard 2 Feature not found in xboard 3

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 20:19
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> In v3, when you pick a man you want to move, and it is not your turn to
> move, Xboard tells you that you don't have the move. 

I've removed this feature in xboard 3.0.pl9, as announced here a week
or two ago.  I originally put it in because I didn't realize people
wanted to start their moves before it was their turn.

> (1) I'd like to indicate a move by double-clicking on the destination
> square (when there is no ambiguity). E.g. opening by clicking on e4. Very
> natural for captures !

I don't plan to implement this; sorry.  It would require quite a bit
of work.

> (2) When you are observing (instead of playing) an ICS game, menu entries
> for resign, ... should not be active as they are now.

Currently the decision to activate or inactivate menu entries is made
just once when you start up xboard, based on whether it is in gnuchess
mode, -ics mode, or -ncp mode.  I don't plan to add all the code that
would be needed to do this on a finer grain.

	--Tim
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From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann)
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Subject: Re: xboard 2 Feature not found in xboard 3
Date: 22 Sep 1993 20:19:11 GMT
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